Instead of the "celebrate me", the focus now is spending quality time with loved ones on a special day..

#birthday #isthisathing

Re-inventing birthday parties: instead of receiving gifts, the birthday person gives out a "gift". Imagine the birthday kid says "let's celebrate my birthday by painting these little planters, fill it up with dirt, and plant a seed". All the kids go home with a memory and a fruit of their labor..

How to handle a small fire, what to do during and after an earthquake...
Imagine raising generations of kids who are informed and capable in emergency situations - it's not like we are going to have any less of those.. emergencies that is..

#isthisathing #cert #emergencypreparedness

CERT (community emergency response team) training in schools: kids get one hour a week of safety instruction (level up starting from 1st grade all the way to senior year in high school: stop the bleed training, first aid and CPR training...

#isthisathing #cert #emergencypreparedness

How about a program to loan/borrow spycam detector from your local library.. let's say you are going on a vacation and you want to make sure no weirdo stuff is happening in your hotel or Airbnb...

#isthisathing #sleeplessinairbnb #library

Is there a plan in place to clean up the low earth orbit if the Kessler effect actually happens?

#satellite #pollution #debris #space #isthisathing

Some drones with narcan would be nice... Let's put them in local fire stations? Docked and ready to go. Maybe they can be deployed remotely (eg, 911 operator or a social worker)? @harmreduction.org

#isthisathing #practical

Can we have remote-controlled firefighting drones? Maybe they can do surveillance in high-risk areas and send an alert when they detect something? @calfire.bsky.social

#practical #legit #isthisathing